TY - BOOK AU - Brooks,Malcolm TI - Painted horses SN - 9780802121646 AV - PS3602.R64447 P35 2014 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York PB - Grove Press KW - Women archaeologists KW - Fiction KW - Horsemen and horsewomen KW - Nineteen fifties KW - Montana KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd N2 - "Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her--a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar--the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the U.S. Army's last mounted cavalry campaign, living a fugitive life in the canyon. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than the vanished past"-- ER -